 Pilgrimage map, India In India, religions reacted very quickly to new medial forms imported from the West in the last few decades. Mass production released the images from clerical control and enabled access to all areas of the audiovisual media and to the most diverse social contexts. Pasted up on room and house walls, on computer screens and car doors, hidden in purses or on medallions, printed on calendars and also via further advertising channels, the colourful flood of images now ensures that religious iconography characterises the image of everyday India more than ever before. The various incarnations of the Hindu gods like Krishna or Saraswati can consequently go on existing as popular superstars alongside politicians and film stars in the contemporary secularised media. Kajri Jain, * 1961 in Canberra (AUS), lives and works in Toronto (CA)  Kajri Jain, Bazaar Religious Imagesassorted religious prints on paper, postcards, stickers, calendars, DVDs, 1 mantra box courtesy Kajri Jain
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